Symposium on Syria and Afghanistan: Part II
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From 1979 to 1989, Soviets occupied Afghanistan to prevent its client state form collapsing. Currently Russia is treating Syria as a client state in some similar ways. Afghanistan remains a struggling democracy, often falling into "failed state" category since that time. The Syrian state-perhaps even worse-is currently almost nonexistent in terms of functional centralized institutions.
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